Projects in genres: Experimental

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A modern realisation of Edward Lear’s haunting poem.

The Dong falls in love with a Jumbly girl when she arrives on the empty shore. But the Jumblies sail on and the Dong is driven beyond sense by a refusal to abandon a dream.

Shot before and during lockdown at Dungeness and narrated by Tilda Swinton the poem is newly minted and relevant with all its poignant beauty in tact.

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A moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit.
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

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Using experimental animation to explore migration that triggered 400 years of emigration from Britain between 1620-2020 - a single footprint rapidly escalates into patterns of human travel in the form of ‘abstract lines’ within the natural world to evoke meaning; suggesting epic voyages and connected narratives over long histories.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2021 - Research in Film Awards for Best Animated Film of the Year (RIFA) - Winner
British Animation Awards (BAA) 2022 – Wild Card Category- Winner

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'I invite you into the world of my weekly planner.'

Premiere at the 19th (2022) IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

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Three stop-frame animations made on the floor of my London flat using water, cardboard and home-made slime. Watermeadow, bog-eye & mudflats were made over a long period of time. The project was pulled together during successive pandemic lock-downs whilst imagining wide open marshland, swamps and mires of different kinds.

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An ugly moment in a Berlin bar knocks Yasmina from her usual path and launches us into a series of encounters in a precarious world, beyond the neon and the billboards.
Inspired by Schnitzler’s 19th century play, Reigen (La Ronde), ATOMEN careers through the everyday lives and dilemmas of our characters, laying bare the alienation and disenfranchisement, and at the same time the longing for love and connection, even if the pursuit of this almost always fails…..
In this world, this world of late capitalism, where faith is lost, and truth is lost, and all are told to only care for themselves, how do people root themselves, find meaning, find enough hope to make life worth living – a life, as Freud said, of ordinary unhappiness, rather than extraordinary alienation?

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A mixed-race woman applies for a job as a costume wearer, only to find nothing fits.

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In an art therapy session, a young veteran confronts his PTSD through mask-making.Shot on Super 16mm with hand-painted animation and microscopic cinematography- the film communicates via the same non-verbal pathways that can allow those who suffer from PTSD to speak.

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Made between three locations, artist and filmmaker Sharlene Bamboat’s latest work is assembled through a call and response exchange of sound, text and image. Interested in the framework of voice, vibration, time, sound and language that quantum physics explores, Bamboat’s new film emerges from an exchange of theoretical entanglements but is practiced and rendered through bodily ones.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - European premiere

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Weeds aren't just weeds. They're like friends. During the first Covid-19 wave, plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild.

Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 - Shortcuts World premiere
Official Selection Dinard Festival of British Film 2021
Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2021 - International Shorts
Official Selection Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022
Official Selection Aspen Shortsfest 2022

Synopsis

The world began with the Big Bang, we are told the walls of Jericho were decimated by trumpets, to music being used as torture or control, to persuade or even calm, to the soundtracks to war and music for revolutions. What is music and sound's relationship to control and power?

We have channeled this question through candid conversations with neural networks, by training machines on a collected sonic and visual history of noise, metal and rock music, as well as music that is sacred and spiritual. The project explores ideas around music as a weapon, as a cultural shifter, manipulator, unifier and ultimately, as a force.

The result is a non-stop fictional band performing endlessly, 24 hours a day. As the music infinitely changes, unique combinations of sound and visual will never be repeated. We have collaborated with AI music pioneers, Dadabots, combining machine learning, audio-responsive assets & procedural visuals inside VRChat to create a fully immersive real-time interactive environment. We are sonically at the mercy of the machine, as one never knows what will be performed on arrival.

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The Universe is revolving around me in a bad way.”
Through mind-bending animation, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the limits of reality in this true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities.